Points of Divergence : Austria

Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Austria.

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WI: Celtic central Europe

Marcus Aurelius loses against the Germanics in 172 (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia” - Dr. Reinhard Pohanka)

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WI: Habsburg Polish-German Union

Ogedei Khan survives in 1241, the Mongols invade Central Europe (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia” - Dr. Reinhard Pohanka)

Rudolf von Habsburg loses against Ottokar Przemysl in 1278 (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

Rudolf IV dies in a snowstorm in 1363, Bavaria gets Tyrol (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

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Challenge: An Austria-dominated Germany

Challenge: Lutheran Austrian Habsburgs

WI Gabriel Bethlen succeeds at conquering Vienna in 1619

Sulayman takes Vienna in 1529 (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia” - Dr. Reinhard Pohanka)

The Protestants in Bohemia win in 1620 - no Thirty-Year War (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

Kara Mustafa takes Vienna in 1683 (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

Maria Theresia dies in 1738 from a complicated birth (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

Austria makes its own revolution in 1795 (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

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Challenge: An Austria-dominated Germany

1703: A Franco-Bavarian army takes Vienna

Could Francis II. Rákoczi's victory in the Battle of Trenčín led to Hungary separating from the Habsburgs and becoming independent again ?

WI Russia and Austria attack Berlin after Kunersdorf (1759) ?

France/Austria/Russia win the Seven Years War

What if the British teamed up with the Poles against the 18th century alliance of Prussia, Austria and Russia ?

WI: Austrian participation in the Second Partition of Poland

Napoleonic Wars PODs

WI Austrians took Bosnia in 1830s or 1840s?

If Austria lost Hungary in 1848, would it have been balkanized ?

No Emperor Franz Joseph

WI: Franz Joseph I. dead in 1853 ?

Austro-Prussian War PODs

Austro-Hungarian PODs

WI: An Austrian Queen for Umberto I

WI the League of Three Emperors lasts longer than until 1890 (as in OTL) ?

The revolution of 1848 is successful (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia” - Dr. Reinhard Pohanka)

Emperor Franz Joseph is assassinated in 1853 (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

General Benedek wins the battle of Königgrätz in 1866 (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

Crown prince Rudolf shoots Franz Joseph in 1888 during a hunt (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia”)

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Austro-Hungarian PODs

Franz Ferdinand isn't killed in Sarajevo (“Kein Denkmal für Maria Theresia” - Dr. Reinhard Pohanka)

Challenge: Succesful socialist (but not communist) revolutions in Germany, Austria, France, Hungary and Poland in 1919, following the end of WWI

Challenge: Austria allowed to join Germany at Versailles

Bigger interwar era Austria

Switzerland acquires the Austrian bundesland of Voralberg in 1919

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Having black and white as flag for the Habsburg empire

Alternate Austrian coat of arms

Alternate Austrian coat of arms and flags

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Landlocked Nations, Navies, and Islands ISOT to Waterworld

WI: 2015 Austria ISOT to the Anschluss

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